My Life Is Off By 0.2 Degrees

[rockweasel]

Don't forget this is a family friendly forum

If she's on her back then it's time to sleep and she shouts at me to turn the lights off. All very innocent!!!!!

 

[MrFluffy]

Red wine gauge, doesnt go wrong, doesnt require recalibration, doesnt require line of sight to work, can sneak through holes in adjoining walls etc, cheap as chips and you can use water with red food dye in it if you would rather keep the wine for consumption.
Having said that, 0.2deg, whats your tolerance? Are you building a wooden shed that will sproing around with expansion or a space shuttle docking connector?

 

[roofman]

Digital levels are great on a milling table or something, but for shed building nah.....stick with traditional. Who cares if its off.....adds charachter.

Only modern gadjet i really like for such things is the self leveling laser level, good one not cheapo diy one. Superb piece of kit. Used one to level up the road forms before i laid my shed base.

totally agree..i have an old,ish black & decker model and it has the facility to give you a horizontal line around 3 walls of a room at the same time give you a vertical line up,across the ceiling and along the floor..fantastic bit of kit.

 

[Wedg1e]

I have one of the Aldi digital levels but I bought it for aligning TVR suspension, not squaring my shed with the horizon.
As it turned out, the car was more out of skew than Monty Python's treadle crossbeam. Had to shim the driveshaft on one side with more tin than a Cornish mine. The other side only needed the equivalent of a spliff's-worth of Rizla to get the camber right. Bloody Blackpool production tolerances; the diff is probably further off the centreline than the BNP.
I'm surprised that nobody from TVR, Lotus, Morgan, Noble et al have never posted here (or they've kept quiet about where they work ).

 

[rockweasel]

Red wine gauge, doesnt go wrong, doesnt require recalibration, doesnt require line of sight to work, can sneak through holes in adjoining walls etc, cheap as chips and you can use water with red to start with food dye in it if you would rather keep the wine for consumption.
Having said that, 0.2deg, whats your tolerance? Are you building a wooden shed that will sproing around with expansion or a space shuttle docking connector?

I'm realising that the materials I'm using are so far out anyway that it makes a bit of a nonsense of trying to get everything exactly plumb.
By my calculations if a straight 3000mm length of wood is out by 0.2 degrees, that's only 1mm off where I want the end to go.
My wood has more of a bow to it than that to start with.

 

[Bill Edwards]

Red wine gauge, doesnt go wrong, doesnt require recalibration, doesnt require line of sight to work, can sneak through holes in adjoining walls etc, cheap as chips and you can use water with red food dye in it if you would rather keep the wine for consumption.
Having said that, 0.2deg, whats your tolerance? Are you building a wooden shed that will sproing around with expansion or a space shuttle docking connector?

Red wine gauge would be at risk of disappearing and after a couple of bottles had gone I don't think there'd be much straight or level

I'm realising that the materials I'm using are so far out anyway that it makes a bit of a nonsense of trying to get everything exactly plumb.
By my calculations if a straight 3000mm length of wood is out by 0.2 degrees, that's only 1mm off where I want the end to go.
My wood has more of a bow to it than that to start with.

Ah yes, bent materials.
I have found this can be quite bad. Fence rails at work that're surprisingly bent, how on earth do you do a neat job with bowed parts? It's not so easy.
And steel I have also found can come bent, I'm talking box section.

 

[rockweasel]

Work in progress. Probably overkill for a storage shed, but at least I'm having fun building it.
Noggins to go in next ("noggined"??), then slap on a roof and clad the sides.
3m wide by 2.4m deep. Not a straight line in sight

 

[rockweasel]

As good as done:
I tacked a breathable membrane on the roof for now to make the shed waterproof and let the wood dry out.
Still to do: felt the roof and line the inside with OSB. Steel roof goes on next year when I have more cash to spare. I threw a few bits and pieces in the shed to try it out for size. The clear out has made a big difference to space in my workshop.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Coming on nicely . No window(s)? uUnless that's a security issue, it's going to be hellish dark in there - especially in the depths of Winter..... Any plans for a power supply?

Noggins to go in next

fftopic: But anyone remember when TV was like this......?

 

[rockweasel]

Coming on nicely . No window(s)? uUnless that's a security issue, it's going to be hellish dark in there - especially in the depths of Winter..... Any plans for a power supply?



fftopic: But anyone remember when TV was like this......?

Deliberately no windows: they'd take up valuable wall space! No electrics planned as this is just for storage. If I need light I'll use a torch

 

[arther dailey]

thats a strong shed for its size, have you seen the ones they sell at large diy superstores, more like four fence panels of the cheapest sort tacked together by a 9 year old.

 

[rockweasel]

thats a strong shed for its size, have you seen the ones they sell at large diy superstores, more like four fence panels of the cheapest sort tacked together by a 9 year old.

Yes, I've had a couple over the years and they start to sag and leak. Not very well put together. I'm trying to make my property as low maintenance as possible so I can enjoy my free time in my twilight years rather than be scampering about on top of sheds.

 

[ChrisJ]

Coming on nicely . No window(s)? uUnless that's a security issue, it's going to be hellish dark in there - especially in the depths of Winter..... Any plans for a power supply?



fftopic: But anyone remember when TV was like this......?

Noggin... (long pause for 10 minutes), the Nog.